Photo essay in two parts from the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign March on the RNC. Part 1: Rally, Repression, March Begins.

"The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign calls for you to join us as we fill the streets of St. Paul, Minnesota in a powerful, peaceful demonstration for the right to health care, housing and all economic human rights. We will march because as poverty, hunger, unemployment and homelessness grow throughout this country, political leaders from both major parties have abandoned us. We cannot afford to be silent. We cannot afford to be disappeared from the public eye and the political debates as our families suffer...We will make our voices heard as we “March for Our Lives to demand “Money for Health Care and Housing, Not for War!” - Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign Statement

Hello, Many of these are excellent photographs, and I'd like to print higher resolution versions of some of them in Peacework Magazine. I don't see a way to get in touch with you. Please email me at pwork at igc.org.

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